Rosé
YG EntertainmentBLACKPINK‘s Rosé is using her vocal talents in a brand new way. On Tuesday (Dec. 7), the K-pop star took to Instagram to announce that she has collaborated with popular mediation and sleep app Calm for her very own bedtime story titled “Grounded With Rosé,” which is available now.
“I’ve been dying to share this exciting news with you all but I finally get to tell you – I have my very own sleep story, out now on @calm!!” the singer shared. “I started using Calm almost two years ago and it’s helped me get a comfortable, good nights sleep every single time. I literally dreamed of recording my own version someday, so thank you Calm for having me join in this fun project. I certainly won’t be able to fall asleep to my own sleep story just yet (still getting used to hearing my own talking voice lol) but I cannot wait for you guys to hear it.”
Rosé added, “I hope you all enjoy it, let me know what you guys think, but most importantly: I hope it makes you all KNOCK. OUT.”
The BLACKPINK member is the latest celebrity voice to partner with Calm. In July, the app announced a partnership with Harry Styles, and have had others such as Kelly Rowland, LeBron James, Laura Dern, Lucy Liu, Matthew McConaughey and more lend their voices for story narration.
The 24-year-old most recently released her first solo EP, R — which contained singles “On the Ground” and “Gone” — via YG and Interscope in March. “On the Ground” hit the No. 1 spots on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. US chart, while “Gone” reached No. 29 and No. 17 on the charts respectively.
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Music photographer Jill Furmanovsky said she wasn’t taken aback by the overwhelming excitement surrounding the Oasis reunion tour.
The photographer has been capturing the Wonderwall hitmakers for more than thirty years and shared that the Oasis Live '25 Tour, which brought Noel and Liam Gallagher back on stage together for the first time in 16 years, worked so well because the concerts have always been “about the audience”.
Jill, who first crossed paths with Oasis at one of their early shows at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in 1994, explained to NME: “It didn’t catch us off guard, because Oasis have always been about the crowd. Always. There was never much to shoot on stage.
“Even at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, the performance itself was simple, but the people in the crowd knew every word and were completely swept up in it.
“And that hasn’t really changed over time. They just bring out that songbook and deliver it. Liam is still magnetic and captivating, even when he keeps it minimal. It remains incredibly powerful. That’s the essence of their show.”
Furmanovsky, who has photographed icons like Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin over the course of her fifty-year career, added: “What they’ve done with this new tour, the production, and the visuals… it’s something special.
“The mix of generations in the crowd is also striking. I went with my 13-year-old granddaughter, and there were plenty of kids her age singing along word for word. It’s incredible.
“‘Biblical’ is the term people throw around. It sounds almost silly, but when two brothers who’ve been at odds for years come together again, there really is something biblical about that alone. Combine it with what they’re putting on stage… it’s unlike anything else.”
Jill’s latest book Trying To Find A Way Out Of Nowhere reflects her years documenting Oasis, and she shared that no current act matches what the Supersonic band represents. She was also able to photograph them once again at one of their massive Wembley Stadium shows during the reunion tour.
She said: “There aren’t many artists today who can step into the space Oasis occupies and actually live up to it.
“We’re in a different time now, a kind of in-between phase. It feels like the closing of a rock ‘n’ roll chapter. That doesn’t mean talent or creativity is gone. It’s like with painting — we still have great impressionists, but we’re no longer living in the impressionist era.”
